Birth certificate

[josey]

It may be of  benefit to click the 'Report to Moderator' and ask to transfer the thread to the Lancashire board.

Have you been able to look at the 1939 Register on findmypast to see if it operated as a home then?

Josey

[KGarrad]

It was the Manchester Mission Maternity Home and Hospital.
42 High Street, Chorlton upon Medlock, Manshester

aka Manchester & Salford Mission
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1883275

[Dyingout]

Two words cover it "Social Stigma. You have to remember the times were less relaxed, in views on sex outside of marriage in the 1950's. To be seen a pregnant with no husband, was a social no no.
Women were often attacked, by so called reputable women. Often called whores and the like.
As soon as the bump started to show, they were carried off to these homes, sometimes miles away from where they lived. Under the lie that they had got a job somewhere else.
The baby once born was whisked away from the mother to be adopted.
It wasn't until the mid 1960's that places like these were closing, as there was a different, enlightened world and being an unmarried mother, did not hold the stigma any more.

You may like to read these accounts Sorry it's the Daily Mail but one good piece of journalism from them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1369512/Adoption-Eight-women-share-incredibly-moving-stories.html

[*Sandra*]

A little information on this link -

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-MANCHESTER/2006-10/1160382770

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/ENG-MANCHESTER/2006-10/1160401926

Sandra

[ScouseBoy]

I was adopted in 1952 from some kind of Home at 42 High Street in Manchester and would like any information about it. My birth mother married in 1953 so I was wondering what kind of reason she would have been sent there.
Any help would be welcome
Thanks

.  Do you know how old your birth mother was  when she gave birth?

[suzard]

High St Chorlton on Medlock Manchester has its name changed and is now Hathersage Rd
One directory describes no 42 (High St) as Manchester & Salford Mission Maternity Home & Baths

Present day (I have been told) 42 (now hathersage Rd) runs from Oxford Rd and on the corner is St Mary;s Hospital and Royal Infirmary no 42 seems to be next to Victoria Baths

On children homes site there is this information
Manchester Mission Maternity Home & Hospital 40-42 High St
1903 for young unmarried mothers, 1st cases only £3 3s fee Under 25 years of age 15 places
1926 Mother and babies under 25 14 places

Suz

[Stitches]

Good evening all
Am I fighting a losing battle in trying to find my fathers name???
Its not on my original long certificate of 1952 yet I know the name of the man that my birth mother married 12 months after my birth in 1953...both have died.
Clutching at straws, perhaps.
Many thanks

[CaroleW]

If there is no fathers name on your birth cert and your birth mother has died then there is no way of knowing who your father was unless your birth mother has living relatives who may have information. 

It's possible her husband did not know about you if you were adopted before the marriage

Have you applied for your adoption records in case there are any clues there?

[Stitches]

Can you tell me wat thes papers would tell me other tan what I allready know, please.